Americans are more likely to die from overdoses than in car accidents.

According to a new report, the death rate from an opioid overdose in the United States for the first time in history has exceeded the death rate from car accidents.

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Amid the nation's ongoing opioid crisis, the National Safety Council, based on an analysis of 2017 U.S. fatalities, found that the odds of dying from an overdose are one in 96, and the odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 103, writes Daily Mail.

This is the first time that drugs have outdone cars as a likely killer of Americans, although the chances of dying from suicide exceed both of these indicators.

Heart disease remains the most likely cause of death in the United States, the chance of dying from a cardiovascular disease is one in six, but the report stresses that the opioid epidemic directly affects how many Americans live and die.

It's no secret that addictive opioids have had and continue to have a devastating impact on American society. The figures of dependence of US citizens on the use of such drugs are just shocking. In 2018, the American Psychiatric Association found that about one in three people in the United States knew someone who was addicted to opioids. And now the drugs are causing a terrifying huge number of deaths in the country.

For every American, the likelihood that he will die from opioids, and not from any other possible cause, is 1 to 96.

If you put it in context, this indicator will be even more shocking.

The odds of getting a flush—a regular flush, not a straight or royal flush—when playing five-card poker are 1 in 508. That means you're five times more likely to die from an opioid overdose than getting a flush in a card game.

If you are not a poker player, then you can approach this indicator from the other side.

A survey in September of 2018 showed that the average person has 338 friends on Facebook. Thus, according to the causes of death statistics, more than three of your friends on Facebook must die from an opioid overdose.

According to a new report, the most likely causes of death for Americans are heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and suicide.

Infographics: National Safety Council

The National Security Council has emphasized that the death rate from opioids has increased greatly in recent years. More than 400-percent increase in such deaths over the past 30 years is almost unprecedented, before this kind of increase was recorded only for the death rate in traffic accidents, because the number of cars grew very quickly.

About 75% of opioid users say that their addiction began with prescription drugs, in 29% these drugs became addictive, 12% did not form a dependency, but they are recognized in periodic abuses.

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